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If someone tells you they’re a Libertarian
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:47 pm
How do you interpret that in today’s political climate?
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Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:49 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
I assume they're ignorant. Because most people who claim that out loud in public as a badge of honor are ignorant.
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:50 pm to Breesus
Assuming people are ignorant is probably one of the most ignorant things you can do.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:50 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
I ask them questions.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:50 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
They’re one of the following:
1. A human with common sense representing what the R party should stand for;
2. A progressive who hates conservatives, but thinks conservatives might listen to him if he identifies as something more similar to them; or
3. A bitter NeverTrumper who can’t bring themselves to vote for a democrat.
Most irl are in the first category, most online fall into the second, and most on television are in that third category.
1. A human with common sense representing what the R party should stand for;
2. A progressive who hates conservatives, but thinks conservatives might listen to him if he identifies as something more similar to them; or
3. A bitter NeverTrumper who can’t bring themselves to vote for a democrat.
Most irl are in the first category, most online fall into the second, and most on television are in that third category.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:51 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
I'm a registered libertarian. I'm not hardcore, but I think their ideas are generally better than other parties.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:51 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
To me it means i think i'm smart and want to complain about both sides while not taking a stand that can help improve matters.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:51 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
quote:
How do you interpret that in today’s political climate?
They’re uncomfortable and uncommitted on the real issues that separate conservatives and progressives.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:51 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
I understand that they prefer the purity of political and economic philosophy to the ugly reality of the sausage- making that is governance.
This post was edited on 5/26/20 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:52 pm to Olric
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Assuming people are ignorant is probably one of the most ignorant things you can do.
Claiming that if one were to assume people are ignorant is itself ignorant, displays an ignorance of the reality that most people in the world are ignorant.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:52 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
quote:
How do you interpret that in today’s political climate?
Libertarians are the Cosplayers of the Political World....
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:52 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
That I want to be left alone. Go have a military and have it be awesome AF. I'm in the minority of libertarians on this one.
Stop taxing me or my business like crazy. Tax my property if it's on sovereign land and protect it. I'll gladly pay for that.
Stop giving out my money to those who do not earn it
Stop telling me I can't grow, buy, or smoke weed whenever I want (Couldn't anyway because of my job, but it's the principle)
Let me own whatever type of gun I want and don't put me on any list for it
Go be gay. Who the frick cares
Don't murder people.
Don't take what isn't yours.
Stop taxing me or my business like crazy. Tax my property if it's on sovereign land and protect it. I'll gladly pay for that.
Stop giving out my money to those who do not earn it
Stop telling me I can't grow, buy, or smoke weed whenever I want (Couldn't anyway because of my job, but it's the principle)
Let me own whatever type of gun I want and don't put me on any list for it
Go be gay. Who the frick cares
Don't murder people.
Don't take what isn't yours.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:52 pm to kingbob
A lot of them just don't like the word 'liberal'. So, they are libertarians because they are Marxists who support gay marriage so that makes them libertarian.
Or, they are Marxists who want dope legalized so that makes them libertarian.
Or, they are Marxists who want dope legalized so that makes them libertarian.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:53 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
I consider myself as libertarian leaning. I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. (Neither party seems to be fiscally conservative any longer.)
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:54 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
quote:
How do you interpret that in today’s political climate?
In a different political system, I would applaud the existence of a libertarian party with its own agenda. Libertarians who realize, like me, that voting GOP even with RINOs is better than Democrats. Libertarian Republicans are a big wing of the GOP.
The problem I have is when registered libertarians, who know their party's nominee has literally no chance at all at winning, votes for that candidate, which causes that libertarian candidate to be a spoiler candidate and allows a left-leaning Democrat to win. Yes, you can point out many issues with the GOP candidate, yes I believe people should vote their values, but was allowing a liberal to win in the long run worth it?
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:54 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
at first? PAISANO!
then during intricate study of the slight differences in our version of libertarianism?
then during intricate study of the slight differences in our version of libertarianism?
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:54 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
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If someone tells you they’re a Libertarian
I usually start to get really sleepy.
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:54 pm to SlowFlowPro
That's accurate 
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:54 pm to Jeb Busch Lite
It means they lean one way but don’t want to publicly take sides.
I am a libertarian, but I don’t affiliate with the party, as it has an agenda. I think true libertarians don’t really have an agenda, they just want people to leave each other alone
I am a libertarian, but I don’t affiliate with the party, as it has an agenda. I think true libertarians don’t really have an agenda, they just want people to leave each other alone
Posted on 5/26/20 at 1:55 pm to Olric
The majority of people are ignorant. If you will not acknowledge that fact then you are either ignorant or just naive.
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